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Azure inter-AZ traffic has been free for a while.

AWS is not the only public cloud.
Americans will consider anything other than a proper public health system. Like a hare-brained scheme of pro rating insurance premiums to hours worked, whatever the fuck that means. Or making insurance premiums tax deductible. Just utter stupidity at every turn.
What’s wrong with not having a house? If somebody has a home they’re fine the way they are. I don’t have a house and it’s not a big deal.
When will this come to pass? OpenAI has many orders of magnitude more conversational data and Anthropic just keeps catching up. Until there is some evidence (OpenAI winning, or Google winning rather than Open Source catching up), I don't belive this is true.
> GL is only a drawing API. Then you need to handle fonts (layout, rendering)

Exactly. It should suffice. Render text on a texture using FreeType or, if you feel fancy, using HarfBuzz.

> input and focus (including compose and input methods), actual window management,

No, not for a circular menu which is 100% mouse-driven. It's much closer to a game than to a desktop app. It should be about as complex in its functionality as dmenu, driven by config files. An optional nice GUI configurator for it could be a self-contained web app.

> They're just more avoidable.

Exactly: it's harder to access them from non-programmatic context, e.g. from a maliciously crafted menu item or .desktop file. Or so I hope at least.
I feel like you (and others) are saying what I'm saying.

I said;
>> There is no technical moat, but that doesn't mean there isn't a moat.

Meaning that just because the moat is not technical doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Clearly Amazon, Google, Facebook etc have moats, but they are not "better software". They found other things to act as the moat (distribution, branding, network effects).

OpenAI will need to find a different moat than just software. And I agree with all the people in this part if the thread driving that point home.
Most of these things seem hardly out there in the context of when he made them.

Well working on r&d for a television he predicted people would use TV for news? Like if you already invented a tv, that seems like the most obvious use.

During the high point of first wave feminism and changing gender roles, he predicted that woman wearing pants might become the norm...

He predicted wind power despite wind power having been used for hundreds of years by this point.

He predicted "Life is to be made far easier by the use of machinery that will do all the heavy and disagreeable work.” in the middle of that already starting to happen (the industrial revolution was already well over at this point)

To be sure, its easy to look back and think things are obvious. Plenty of people of that time would have said the opposite. However its not like these predictions were out of left field for the time.
This is a great explanation. I wasn't previously familiar with these concepts and this is exactly the point I wanted to make. If only a 50.1% consensus is needed at one point in time (either by political will or referendum) to join the EU, the EU could end up with a group of members half-committed to membership. It is then much harder for such a body to make difficult or controversial decisions if members are constantly on the cusp of leaving, and easier for members with lower EU approval rates (such as Hungary) to extract concessions far in excess of their relative power.
Do you not understand PBLLC? Also https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...
Yeah! I love NileRed (and blue). To be clear, it's not safe for someone without a lot of training to ingest a chemistry project and even then. Hopefully it didn't read like I was endorsing anyone to do so. Just that there's a history of that which we've walked away from (for good reason!) and that we wouldn't be here without some brave chemists to do the insane thing.
I have a hard time understanding that sentence.

Organizers of what? The businesses, or illicit tobacco?

What does standing over mean?

It's not clear to me why standing over would be a motivation for attacks.
I actively criticize and state my contentment for Microsoft, and other companies. Those statements may harm the image and the bottom line. Am I subverting those companies? And yes, I do wish for Microsoft and other companies market share to demise and shift else where. Companies can get too big they turn into a market bully by request free labor to get and retain their business. Personally experienced this.

Kroger is a good example of a large market share. They hide behind multiple grocery store names as a dark pattern to fool consumers that there is actual market competition. This allows for them to price gouge the consumer with lack of seller competition. Producers loose their selling power with the lack of buying competition too. Making those statements, am I subverting Kroger?
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Walmart and Target already had warehouses, but the end-to-end system you need for 2-day, 1-day, same day shipping, which includes warehouses/trucks/drivers, is not something they had

They were built for people to come to their store, and the website was a second class citizen for a long time.

But that was Amazon's bread and butter. They built that fast-shipping moat as a pretty established company, and the big retailers were caught off guard
Somehow I don't think that either UK or France would be willing to get into a nuclear exchange with Russia over Poland or Finland, especially considering the relative sizes of the nuclear arsenals involved, and then also how much less concentrated the Russian population is.
Worst person one knows has a legitimately good opinion.
Look at Android vs Apple phones in the US. HN tends to really underestimate the impact of branding and product experience. It’s hard to argue anyone’s close to OpenAI on that front (currently).

Not to mention they’ve created a pretty formidable enterprise sales function. That’s the real money maker long term and outside of Google, it’s hard to imagine any of the current players outcompeting OpenAI.
Is Scrooge Our New Role Model?
You break up the codebase when the communication patterns in the org calls for it e.g. engineers complain about it.

It’s not a purely technical problem.
Because among other things that would make the oligarchs sad and trigger massive capital flight. Whether the emotional and financial well-being of the richest 150-ish people on the planet should be a credible concern is TBD.
In large mono-repos, like this one is presumably targeting, running all tests in the repo for a given PR would take years (maybe even decades/centuries) of compute time. You have to do some level of test selection, and there are full time engineers who just work on optimizing this.

The test runtime argument is the main one IMO.

(source: while I did not work on this at a prior job, I worked closely with the team that did this work).
It's actually not the nicotine that gives you cancer in chewing tobacco. And given all this harm with cigarettes isn't it sensible that we legalize a less harmful method that people have used quite successfully to wean off cigarettes when other efforts have failed them? Social smokers/vapers are always going to exist, the buzz goes together too well with booze, but there are people who do use this stuff to actually see substantially better health outcomes.
Bible AI Chat
> you cited 0 things I would personally be interested in

what things are you interested in that are cultural?

> as hard times coming

This wouldn't surprise me, but unless it happens in 2nd to 4th year of his presidency, it's almost certainly going to be the bipartisan drunken sailor spending of Congress since the pandemic our country likely had a hand in causing.

Between accelerating national debt and our disastrous Ukraine war banking policies and international asset seizures that have undermined dollar supremacy, I'm expecting hard times unless we get a Milei-style intervention to course correct.

> Disclaimer; lived and worked in the US; left the first time trump got the presidency.

Hope that's working out for you. It's working out here for me.
Even large mainstream app developers are not testing against Lockdown mode. Amazon’s app doesn’t load Customer support chat with it enabled for example.

Also, is JIT disabled for alternative browser engines in EU?
> You're assuming that every for profit business is entirely devoid of morality.

The only person making any kind of assumption is actually you, by imagining that something is not possible or plausible because you project your personal expectations based on a personal notion of morality onto everyone.

If you take a step back and look at the scenario, you'll understand that nothing binds any third party to comply with your personal expectations, or follow your particular argument based on morality. Therefore your expectations are completely unfounded.

If you take a look at reality you'll find plenty of examples where projects which were previously open were afterwards closed and monetized. This is nothing new. Just take a look at, say, Reddit. Or even Twitter. Countless examples.
Show HN: Onramp Can Compile Doom
Income tax is class warfare. No thank you
It would do a lot to reduce the amount of single use plastic packaging.

Sure, the plastic Coke bottle costs 1-2 cents less than the glass one, but the ecological problems it creates are at least an order of magnitude higher than that.

If Coke can either increase their prices by $0.01 or $0.10, and the $0.01 option is preferred by consumers, their choice will be clear.
Whereas you would previously (for your first example) have a conversation with the guy at the video store and he'd not only tell you the movie but also recommend something else you might like.
Right. The principled way to interact with a GoL computer is to implement yourself in the game.
Writing Doom – Short Film on Superintelligence [video]
It's multiple lebanese family/gangs (Haddara family and others) vs biker gangs - as far as I can tell from news reports.

Both these parties run tobacco stores in many states - licensing was/is non-existant or minimal, although they are now increasing the overview and requirements in states that were lax.

These stores were mostly branded as vape/convenience stores until the recent regulation changes, now they often sell american candy and various random things along with local gov sanctioned cigarettes ($50/pack minimum) or the imported packs ($15-25 pack) - you can guess which one they pretty much exclusively sell.

Asians (Vietnamese/Chinese) are also selling the imported cigarettes out of their own branded stores and also some of the big chain tobacco stores (TSG, Cignall).

There have been dozens of arson attacks against the Lebanese and Biker stores over the last few years, supposedly over territory and payments.

A lebanese nearby had its security facade destroyed and was torched black the day after last years Christmas.

The asians don't seem to be involved in the arson attacks, they may be importing it as many of the packs are korean/chinese, but unsure as also eastern european and english brands are available.

The government engineered this situation with its ridiculous taxation policy, it was effective up to a point but it's becoming reminiscent of the era of alcohol prohibition in the USA.
If there are 10 cookies and 12 people who want to buy them the price goes up and some people go without. Giving 2 people enough money to buy the cheapest cookie allows them to buy it, but at the expense of someone else being able to buy it who didn’t have that free money. You can try to give everyone money, but that just puts us back where we started and now the baker can further raise prices to extract that free money from everyone. When there isn’t enough to go around, the solution is to make more cookies.
2013 was a big year on YouTube, it was the year after Gangnam Style came out - the first YouTube video to reach a billion views. When I see old videos on there I often see a high upvote count.
> Moving sidewalks first appeared at the Paris Exposition in 1900,

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=763664624365076
> I feel a bit bad that my mind also immediately connects "Gruber" to "Apple" in less-than-savory ways, but alas, that's the reputation he built for himself.

Yes this! I won't say how I've come to know, but if you have ever wondered "is this guy on the take from Apple as part of their fuckery?" - the answer is Yes.
I’ve got firefly petunias, and while cool as hell, IRL they are very dim. (Most of the time at least. There are occasional days they are especially active). You need to have either no or low competing light, and be somewhat dark adapted to see them. A street light 2 houses away can completely drown them out so that you’d need to put them in your shadow to see. Note that the still curled up new flower buds are the brightest, and more comparable to glow powder that was charged and left to dim for an hour.

It’s very difficult to actually take a picture of them to accurately show the level of glow. Either your camera is unable to focus on them, or it does too good a job at amplifying the low light, making them seem way more impressive than they are.

Fundamentally, emitting light has a significant cost in ATP, so it’s not practical to simply tell the plant to dump more energy into doing so. A smarter person than me might be able to estimate how many luminaries you’d get per some unit of ATP. Firefly petunias also need full sun throughout the day large or they get leggy and don’t do great.

There are a few things which could make plants as lights more conceivable:

1. Somehow fixing the release of luciferase enzymes to dark conditions only (currently the glowing is always active). I have bioluminescent dinoflagellates that only glow during the times they expect it to be dark, because that’s when they’ll release an enzyme when disturbed. In contract to my petunias, these are very bright, enough to read with, for a single second anyways.

2. Somehow modifying the cellular structures to allow more light to escape like actual fireflies. (https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/firefly-inspired-sur...) Currently much of the light is reabsorbed internally, and this only gets worse with pigments as shown with crossbreeding with other colored petunias. (https://old.reddit.com/r/FireflyPetunia/)

Both of these things are going to be extremely hard.

All that being said, yeah I’d love turning every plant in a park from grass to trees a glowing equivalent, but I’d not ever expect them to provide street lamp level of light. But if you have an area that becomes too dark to see the grass and aren’t going to put up lights anyways, then that’d be a perfect place for such plants.
Man, that quote is completely out of line with the experiences I've heard about. At one point we had a friend couchsurfing with us, and he wanted a home that he had real control over. He was in a house, but he didn't have a home. I don't see how this next step on the euphemism treadmill is an improvement.
> In large mono-repos, like this one is presumably targeting, running all tests in the repo for a given PR would take years (maybe even decades/centuries) of compute time.

No, not really. That's a silly example. Your assertion makes as much sense as arguing that your monorepo would take years to build because all code is tracked by the same repo. It doesn't it, does it? Why?

How you store your code has nothing to do with how you build it.
Amazon (the retail business not AWS) does seem to have a pretty big moat.

For starters they have delivery down. In major cities you can get stuff delivered in hours. That is crazy and hard to replicate.

They have a huge inventory/marketplace. Basically any product is available. That is very difficult to replicate.
Your charges of fanboism seem to be rather projection.

I personally barely use any office apps for 5 minutes per year. I'm not a fan of any.
I don't know about vc money but Amazon was well known for spending all revenue into growth and, to my understanding, noone understood why. Why buy stocks of companies that don't make profit?
Nowadays, it's not unusual. Jeff Bezoz was laughed about for it. I think even on TV (some late night show in the 90s).

Edit: Jay Leno, 1999: https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/news/jeff-bezos-audience-...
FIDE has organized its own Chess 960 championships in the past, and organising championships is how FIDE makes money. It's direct competition.

(Freestyle chess, Chess 960 and Fischer Random are names for the same game)
Who remembers App.net, after the first time Twitter tried banning third-party clients back in like 2012?
" but it will not be devastating for the Icelandic economy if a portion of the quota is allocated to other EU members."

I don't think you realise how small the Icelandic economy truly is, and how big an effect fluctuations in fishing quote already have on it.
There are good reasons not to publish on app store ie. if you want to actually make any money from the app
>Nonsense. A Spotify Premium or 1080p Netflix subscription costs one hour of work at UK minimum wage.

And yet the only growing sector in UK retail at the moment is discount shops.
You make this comment everywhere Pegasus comes up. Half a dozen times on one submission.[1] Can you name some of the other firms we've never heard of?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476828
I'll add this too:

https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=The_Inca:_Masters_of_th...

Jago Cooper is superb and I love all his stuff. The Easter Island documentary is one of the best I've ever seen.
Even back then, people I knew would use NiCad in those devices to save money.
Right, they made the odd choice to use Life to simulate a different cellular automaton and then built logic gates in that automaton. But you can in fact build logic gates directly with gliders in the Game of Life itself. The extra level of abstraction multiplies the area of the final result by about 20000.
It wasn't the EU that we joined in 1973.

The UK joined the EEC, a very different institution
Calling the end of the Inca civilization a collapse fails to convey a fair bit of history.

I expected a term that suggests destruction by invasion.
Too hard for humans. 16-sided dice and dice towers.
A modern rendition of [Zune and DOS / CP/M] Challenge
I'm glad HackerNews does not require email for sign up. Reddit's a bunch of bitches for insta-shadowbanning this. Credit where credit's due though. The idea came from a post on the release of SVAR-DOS.

Posted on GBATemp, thinking it'd inspire one or two gamer/music-minded people of this generation. So much for that.

Anyways, the message on there applies for y'all too.
> So it's clear that test run time is not a problem that justifies throwing complexity to solve it.

There's a lot I can respond to in this post, but I think the bottom line is: if you have not experienced the problem, count your blessings.

Lots of places do face these problems, with test suites that take hours or days to run if not parallelized. And while parallelization reduces latency, it does not reduce costs, and test suites taking 10, 20, or 50USD every time you update a pull request are not uncommon either

If you never hit these scenarios, just know that many others are not so lucky
> the rest are mostly defunct services are just barely hanging on.

...and what a miserable bunch most of them were: 2 MB attachment limits and 10 MB mailbox quotas?! GMail had to drag all of them kicking and screaming into the 21st century when they debuted with a 1 GB mailbox quota.
Possibly by adding a strict set of rules like https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/wmicentral.com/... that require you to apply for 7 jobs a day and submit to mandatory daily room searches for porn, drugs, and alcohol. Perhaps these might be too onerous for the government to introduce.
> My point is that the majority of the mechanical keyboard scene/market is occupied by very traditional (if cut down, in the case of the Any% ones) layout and key types.

You need to pay attention to what you're saying, because you're referring to different things with unrelated words. If you look at what you're saying, you're talking about custom keyboards. Not mechanical keyboards. Custom keyboards. You even called it a "scene". You're talking about people who buy gear and assemble/modify it to fit their taste. What choice of switches they use is irrelevant. Heck, are you still talking about mechanics keyboards if someone switches cherry MX switches with Topre ones?
Not only that, but governments didn't do jackshit about vaping, all around the world. At least classic tobacco smoking is decreasing, finally there was a chance to make it disappear in a generation or two, and make the tobacco companies die. But no - instead the world just let recreational vaping spread like wildfire.
>> America was never a "high trust culture".

> Absolutely not true. It was much much higher trust when I first moved here in 1986

I don't believe it, especially given that you're saying this is due to immigration. What do you mean specifically when you say this? Do you mean there was less violent crime? Because that isn't true. Do you mean that there's more ethnic conflict now? That also isn't really true.

America has been characterized largely by the racial conflicts it's had since the 19th century, with there being ethnic violence between whites, Chinese, Irish, blacks, Italians, and others. Though not to the same extent as the 19th century, riots were still happening, e.g. the 1992 LA riots.
That’s not how fiduciary responsibility works. It’s very easy to say, “we’re not going to do X because we don’t think it’s a good long term investment due to brand destruction”. This happens all of the time. It’s a complete myth that they are responsible to force short term charges for short term revenue.

What you’re confusing it with is shareholder pressure, which is orthogonal to duty. What Reddit went through was just kowtowing to large potential investors to increase IPO demand.
I would go even further and say SDKs shouldn't exist and API developers should ship OpenAPI 3 specs so SDKs can be generated by users. OpenAPI tooling is pretty good at the moment.
Cities are becoming filthy crime, drug, and homeless ridden hellholes. Literacy is dropping. There are city block after city block of empty buildings where businesses used to thrive. Yet the voters keep electing the same city and state leaders. Collapse is already significantly underway.

Blaming national leader's corruption, and of course Trump, is not the issue. The issue is that the voters keep voting for the status quo at the local city and state levels. It seems highly likely that ignorance, lack of education, corruption, rampant drug use, and dependence on government subsidies are the main causes for this. And none of that is showing any signs of improving.
I consider an unpredictable failure like this a horror story considering the median price of these cars is north of 50k and this car is likely under a year old. I have one of these shitty cars too and I can't explain why I bought it other than it doesn't use gas. It has a terrible 40k warranty that has expired for me in about 1.5 years where the Kia i own has 75k left on its warranty after half as much driving. I was well aware of how to reboot the Tesla as I've had to do it numerous times in the past 3 years. One time, the screen didn't come back on for 3 tries. Imagine making car payments on a 2 ton brick in your driveway...

This reminds me of the old meme about if cars were like computers: https://lowendmac.com/2002/if-cars-were-like-operating-syste... Tesla has now done this, but somehow we're more than okay with the downgrade in functionality now, 20+ years later.
What changed? Do we think our money is worth less so it's okay if the products aren't as good. Is this like the shrinkflation version of enshitification? Or just plain enshitification?
All we need is unreasonably effective paper titles